Waggle Words User Reviews

Name: Waggle Words
Rating: 4.3 (48 reviews)

Waggle Words

Vermont Digital Arts LLC

🎮 Games

🧩 Puzzle

📝 Word

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Daily game is always the same

Please fix

velgor

3 years ago

Battery Destroyer

Fun game but I could only play while on the charger. Unreal how much this drained the battery. Had to uninstall.

Edie didbsidn

6 years ago

Looks great, needs a dictionary

Really good game with great visuals, but needs to consult a dictionary as many words, like „Greece“ or „Korean“ are not recognised.

iLife_07

7 years ago

Wish it could save your game

Can’t multitask very much or you lose your game.

HapaHead

7 years ago

Beautiful, fun, smart

I don’t usually play games. This one caught my eye and it was a pleasant surprise. My son loves it too.

ShopsBS

8 years ago

Battery destroying phone melting mess . . .

Earlier today, after downloading it and playing while still plugged in, I was about to give this game a 5 star rating, as I was really enjoying the vibe of the hive and the relaxed-yet-challenging gameplay. I read the reviews before shucking out my 5 dollars, and quickly — stupidly — wrote off the negative ones as being typical haters and drama queens.

I played this for about 15 minutes tonight unplugged, and was staggered to see my battery drop from 80% to 20% in 15 minutes flat, with my 6s Plus heating up to the point where it felt like I was holding a hot cup of coffee.

This is RIDICULOUS. Users have been complaining about this issue forever, but apparently the developers don’t care enough to release an update for a fix, while having the audacity to charge 5 bucks for this battery buster of an app.
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Yet I can still play a graphics-n-sound blasting games like Asphalt 9 with almost no hit to my battery? Doesn’t make sense. I am absolutely perplexed as to how this game is rated as high as it is. Refunds should be given to all users.

Dream Ranger

8 years ago

Battery killer

This is a beautiful looking game, and is fun to play, but it eats battery life like crazy. A game this simple shouldn’t be using 30% of the battery of an iPad Pro in less than an hour.

Havok5178

8 years ago

Meh...

Graphics are good and it’s fun for a bit but there really isn’t much content to this game. DEFINITELY not worth $5.. maybe $1 or 50 cents. Not nearly enough content for the 5$. The game should just end when your out of words but it doesn’t. Having to quit the game after finishing doesn’t feel like much of an accomplishment.

Thatpersonovertheretyping

8 years ago

Response from developer

Hi There! Sorry you don't think Waggle Words has enough content to warrant $5 (or even 50 cents). I'm not sure you're aware that there is a unique level each day (Daily Game) and there are 88 hive configurations which are randomly populated every time you play (Casual and Speed Games). That’s an awful lot of possibilities for content. Additionaly, the player’s use of power-ups can add a lot of complexity and potential to the game; it would be difficult for the game to determine when a game ends if power-ups are available. Perhaps a speed game is more to your liking; It ends after 2 minutes? We’ll look into solving algorithms for the future, but that’ll be a tough one!

Really like this!

Great design and graphics like an active bee hive with the waggle effect. The ability to move backwards and forwards 2 turns, change and move letters to empty spaces is good especially late in the game. But you have to choose the opportunities wisely, well done!

dante's opus

8 years ago

Saved !

Having recently lost my favourite word game to the great 32 bit cull of 2017, and having tired of most of the popular ones, I have been stuck in word game limbo, hoping for something a bit different to appear, when, with perfect timing, comes Waggle Words - great visuals, likewise sound design, and 3 varied ways to play, from thoughtful to frenetic.
Am still stuck in rainy Manchester - but no longer in limbo !
Cheers guys, great effort.

Rowlster 1

9 years ago

Not great

It’s not that fun and the tutorial is poor. I love word games such as scrabble, words with friends, tumble words when that was still a thing etc. This doesn’t live up to them. The style for a word game is weird and the music somewhat unpleasant. I felt more like I was trying to piece together words with the “Mother!” soundtrack for ambience. I feel like this might be a much better game when it is explained why some things happen. Tutorial mode seems to do nothing, and it also made my 7+ run very hot. I’d rather have my money back

felixthefabulous

9 years ago

Love/hate relationship

Loving the gameplay. Hating the overheating of my iPad and iPhone, and how quickly this game drains my battery. The latest update doesn’t solve these two problems.

Grist

9 years ago

Response from developer

We're constantly working on improving battery life. Some factors or in our control and others are due to the engine we're using. Progress is being made slowly on both fronts. Hang in there!

Great game needs few added features desperately

I’m more of a chess/logic puzzle gamer but this game definitely has me.
Gorgeous and organic UI. Great game play. Very easy to pick up and incredibly difficult to put down.

Definitely give this game a try.

Why 3 stars?
- needs undo feature
- needs pause feature
- no landscape mode on iPhone/iPad
- needs save option (once game is closed you lose your progress and have to start a new game)
- no option to put a name on local high scores
(Just in case I let me wife play, she’d like to
have her name added to score board)

iPravda

9 years ago

Could be better

Half way through the game, you'll be at the mercy of the power ups on the bottom trying to join letters together. It would be nice to be able to re-shuffle the words into a workable bunch again, otherwise it gets boring incredibly fast having to restart everything.

achin

9 years ago

Nothing special

I have an IPad Pro running 11 but when I click AR mode it says I need IOS 11. This is a very run of the mill word game, not addictive or really engaging at all. What a waste of $5. I went to developer web site to try to figure out if I was missing something but no help there. Not that the game is hard to figure out, just uninteresting.

Bens Gramma

9 years ago

Response from developer

Hey Bens, You need to update the game to the recent version 1.0.2 and that iOS 11 error will go away. Sorry you find the game boring. Perhaps your not using making streaks and using power-ups to play competitively on the leaderboards? A streak happens/grows when you swipe the letters of a word, the remaining letter advances one in the alphabet, then you start the next word with the remaining letter. To keep this going you need to think ahead & use powers-ups judiciously. Tutorial mode reviews this, but perhaps we need to update our website to make this more clear? We have some pretty high scores which are difficult to achieve, and take some time. I suppose you need focus to find Waggle Words engaging. Sorry you feel otherwise.

Love how original this game and the graphics are fantastic!

The whole family is playing!

artpeep

9 years ago

Awesome

Buy it if you’re into tough but rewarding games.

AMAF90

9 years ago

Perfect sick in bed obsession

Love the graphics... have kept my sick in bed wife content for 4 hours. Better than cough syrup.

Westking56

9 years ago

Not worth $5

Not worth $5. The AR mode is jumpy and, truthfully, it’s easier to play a regular word search game and not have to hold your phone still in an awkward up position. Have a feeling the 5 star reviews are their friends & family. More worth $2-3 for decent graphics.

TBE111

9 years ago

Response from developer

Hey there! We have a couple questions for you: 1) What decide are you playing on? Devices on the older end of the supported spectrum may have a more difficult time tracking in AR. 2) What type of environment are you playing in? For tracking to work, you need to have planes with high contrast edges and patterns for the AR to detect and track. Also shiny/reflective floors may cause issues as well. This is the nature of all AR apps. Also cleaning the camera lens helps with tracking too. 3) Ergonomics - Yes, there we are making changes to the game’s positioning of the hive to be released ASAP. The hive used to face the camera in more ergonomic manner suitable for longer play in AR, then we had to weigh if the shipping priority would be the player can walk up to and around the hive or have the hive appear at various angles. Look for that update coming very soon. -Thanks

Awesome!

This game looks great and is super smooth! It does a great job integrating AR in the game and places AR objects in the world faster than other games I’ve played lately.

TKirby2